Action Quote by Norman Mailer

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave…

— Tom Stoppard

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't…

— Edward Albee

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

— Michael Gartner

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay…

— Chuck Klosterman

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen)…

— Neil Gaiman

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that…

— Carl Hiaasen

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next…

— Adam Clymer

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the…

— Howard Nemerov

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

— Francoise Sagan